Support Chain Seminar (SCS) Events from 2014 - 2017

Our Support Chain Seminar Event 2018 (SCS'18) is being held at the BAWA centre, Bristol on 18 October. The theme is 'Modernising Defence Support'. We look forward to preparing for this joint MOD/Industry event and welcome inputs from members with suggestions for this event &/or interest in being an exhibitor. Please email secretariat@teamdefence.info

Thank you very much to all those involved in making our Support Chain Seminar Event (SCS'17) at the BAWA centre, Bristol a great success. This includes our excellent speakers, delegates, exhibitors, BAWA and other support staff as well as the joint MOD/Industry team that worked hard with TD-Info staff to organise and facilitate this event.

In the meantime, you can access content from previous SCS Events based on the 'tags' for: SCS14, SCS15, SCS16 and SCS17. Or you can clikc on the link below titled "View all associated documents"

To read what was in the programme, you can download the SCS'17 flyer or visit the dedicated SCS17 website at http://uh4k4d.attendify.io/ that includes the programme, speaker bios, exhibitors and downloads

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Jan Godsell is Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Strategy. Her presentation on "Harnessing the potential of the cyber-physical age" covered inter-connected trends…, Industrie 4.0, Circular Economy, Omni-channel, Market Mediation and Consumption driven SC. She also has an end slide about keeping in touch: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/scip/networking

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Jan Godsell is a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at WMG, University of Warwick. Her work focuses on developing sustainable business models through the alignment of product, marketing and supply chain strategy. Jan’s work considers the way that supply chain strategy needs to adapt to support the differing business priorities at different stages in the product lifecycle. She leads the Supply Chain Research Group and the Supply Chains in Practice (SCIP) industrial collaborator forum.

Jan has more than two decades of combined industry experience in product development, innovation, supply chain strategy, and process improvement working for ICI, Astra Zeneca and Dyson. She is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Manufacturing Industries Division board for the Institution of Mechanical Engineer anda member of the European Operations Management (EurOMA) Board. Jan is also part of the manufacturing advisory group for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). She is on the editorial board of three major operations and supply chain journals.

Kevin O'Reilly, Business Development Manager, Lockheed Martin Kevin manages business development for sustainment and support systems and services on behalf of Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Mission Systems in the UK. Sustainment activities include support of Lockheed Martin platforms as well the engineering, optimisation and asset management systems needed to manage a diverse range of complex defence equipment for the MOD. Kevin has worked in the ICT industry for over 30 years working on secure mission critical programmes across globe. He has performed customer and supplier roles across a number of sectors, including: telecommunications, healthcare, transportation, finance, government and defence. Kevin is acutely aware of the pressures facing users and brings extensive practical experience in the design, management and operation of innovative sustainment systems and services in use by some of the world’s most demanding users who rely upon optimal system performance 24/7.

Presentation from Chris Williams-Lilley of Champions.com at the annual joint MOD/Industry Support Chain Seminar, Oct 2017, was titled, The 4th Industrial Revolution

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Chris Williams-Lilley, Managing Director, Principal Consultant, Leadership Champions (UK) Ltd Chris Williams-Lilley is one of those rare individuals who can say he is a consultant, change agent and performance coach and mean it. His consulting business, Leadership Champions (UK), has attracted clients such as Network Rail, Transport for London, MAG Group Airports, and over 30+ other leading prime contracting organizations since starting the business in 2011. He serves on Network Rail’s National Commercial Directors Forum (CDF), as well as being a founder member of the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Infrastructure Steering Group.

His speaking typically includes five keynotes a year at major conferences, and he has been delivering motivational speeches on strategy execution for European suppliers working in regulated industries for over ten years. Most recently, producing a conference on High Reliability Organisation Principles hosted at ExCel (London) for the construction sector. Having a background in Quality Assurance, Sales and Operations helps!

Chris recently interviewed Sir John Egan on the legacy effect of ‘Constructing Excellence,' which resulted in the ‘reshaping’ of a communications strategy across RICS, ICE and the IET. Presidents of each institution are now implementing a truly aligned strategy to accelerated learning and development opportunities for many 1,000’s of members. I cannot say hand on heart Champions were the catalyst for change, but the gauntlet was picked up by key fellows (including, Stephen Blakey FRICS, CDF Chair, Commercial Project Director, Network Rail IP).

Presentation from Capt Matt Bolton, Royal Navy - Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Engineering Support) & Ian Cowper , Babcock Head of Warships Platform Engineering & Chief Engineer at the annual joint MOD/Industry Support Chain Seminar, Oct 2017, was titled,Innovative Through Life Support. A sub-heading of 'MARITIME SUPPORT INFORMATION EXPLOITATION - “Enabling, Equipping and Empowering the Support Enterprise through Digital Transformation” captured the spririt of this joint presentation. This links to a report on the Maritime Support Information Exploitation (MASIX) on this website titled Maritime Support Innovation eXploitation (MarSIX) Strategy_Paper_5 Oct 2017

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Matthew Bolton, Head of Engineering Support DACOS

Ministry of Defence Matt Bolton joined the Royal Navy in 1981 as an Artificer and is an alumni of the Royal Naval Engineering College and University College London. He served at sea in Leander class, Type 21 and Type 22 Frigates and T42 Destroyers and ashore in Training and Acquisition roles before promotion to Commander in 2008. During Matt’s second stage career he has been the Diesel Engine Group Leader in Defence Equipment & Support; Head of Fleet Time Engineering in Portsmouth Naval Base; Head of the Surface Ship Operating Safety Group in Navy Command HQ and Staff Marine Engineer Officer to Commander Portsmouth Flotilla.

On promotion to Captain, Matt was appointed back to Navy Command HQ in June 2016 as Deputy Chief of Staff Engineering Support. His portfolio now spans engineering strategy, doctrine and policy; future support solutions, innovation and information exploitation through to engineering branch leadership, development and capability improvement. He is the FARADAY Programme Director, working to up-skill the Royal Navy’s engineering technicians, and he co-chairs the UKNEST People Programme. A Chartered Engineer, Matt is particularly active with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology as a member of the Board of Trustees and Council; creator of the Engine as a Weapon Symposium series and Chairman of the International Naval Engineering Conference. He is also Chairman of Warsash sea cadet unit, TS TORMENTOR.

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Ian Cowper, Head of Warships Platform Engineering

Babcock Ian Cowper is the Warships Head of Engineering and Chief Engineer at Babcock International and responsible for the delivery of engineering capability, technical innovation and Through Life support strategy in support of the UK and International programmes. He is also the functional head of Babcock’s Warship Technical Authority. Previously he has held a number of high profile Policy, Training, Support, Engineering and Acquisition roles having served over 34 years in the Royal Navy. Ian is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Marine Engineer, Fellow of the IMarEST and a Senior Programme and Project Manager

Director Support Enablers, MOD, titled 'Enabling Support Transformation' includes how the Support Enablers Operating Centre (SEOC) enables improvement; Innovation and evolution; Dynamic analytics to optimise support decision-making; and, a So what?

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Steve Glass. MOD Director Support Enabling Operating Centre and co-Chair DISCOG Strategy Board, Ministry of Defence Steve has recently been appointed as interim Director Support Enablers, immediately prior to this he was the Head of Support Chain Information Systems, responsible for leading the sustainment and new development of Defence Logistic and Engineering Support applications pan-Defence. This includes the management of a long term partnering contract with Boeing Defence UK and the JAMES contract with Lockheed Martin.

Steve spent 2 years as Head of Cryptography and Defensive Cyber capabilities in Joint Forces Command (JFC) / Information Support Systems at Corsham. For the previous 5 years Steve led a team directly supporting counter-Improvised Explosive Device bomb disposal and other specialist capabilities primarily for UK and Afghanistan operations.

In his earlier career, Steve worked across all military domains, programme managing the delivery of complex technical military capability ranging from work on the UK’s strategic nuclear deterrent, avionics, armoured vehicles and military communications.

Steve graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Sheffield, and several years later from University College London with a MSc in system’s engineering. Latterly, Steve focussed on project and programme management, and is a member and registered project professional of the Association for Project Management.

Presentation from Heather Goldstraw (DE&S Technology Office Head) at the annual joint MOD/Industry Support Chain Seminar, Oct 2017, was titled, "The DE&S Innovation Strategy - Inspiring an Innovative Procurement System?". Content includes: that Innovation is really all about Change & the Case for Change; the path to innovation comprising technology, business & enterprise readiness; the D&S Innovation Strategy aims to: help customers to shape and de-risk requirements that optimise pan-domain coherence, through life; to anticipate change through life and plan for flexibility; to identify and manage cross-cutting technical opportunities and threats; to look for innovative ideas from any source, build enablers & tackle barriers; and, to value & support innovation and responsible risk-taking

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Heather Goldstraw, Head of Technology Office, Defence Equipment & Support, DE&S, Ministry of Defence Graduating in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, Heather joined the MOD on the Science & Engineering Fast Stream in 1992 which has shaped a career spanning policy, business strategy and acquisition covering a range of technical disciplines including electronics, infrastructure, communications and ISR, meteorology and weapons, and seen her achieve external qualifications in accountancy and P3M.

Since 2008 she has worked in DE&S focusing on improving the overall “Technical Enterprise”, initially within the Weapons sector and now, as Head of the Technology Office, across wider Defence. Within DE&S she manages relationships across all the delivery Domains as well as directly supporting the needs of customers in each of the FLCs as well as Head Office and Dstl. Through her current delivery portfolio, and through the subsidiary Niteworks organsiation, she works primarily on the R&D interface, bringing together Users, S&T communites, Industry, Regulators and DE&S Delivery teams to improve the coherence of investment and eliminate barriers to the exploitation of great technologies to realise real innovation benefits.

Prior to returning to DE&S, she spent 5 years in the Met Office (then an MOD Trading Fund) leading the Corporate Strategy, Performance Management, Risk and Internal Audit teams. Here she built valuable Board level experience working to both the Chief Executive and Chairman and delivering a number of significant change and commericalisation programmes.

Group Captain Curtis was commissioned into the Supply Branch of the Royal Air Force in February 1985.As a junior officer, he held unit logistics appointments at RAF Coltishall, RAF Gütersloh, RAF Halton and RAF Leuchars, and a staff appointment in HQ Strike Command.He served in the Joint HQ during Operation GRANBY, the first Gulf war, in 1990/91 and, in 1995, he deployed to Croatia, where he worked as both an air movements staff officer in the UN Movements Control Centre, and as a logistics planning officer for the NATO Stabilisation Force.

On return to the UK, he joined the newly-formed Merlin Support Authority within the Defence Helicopter Support Authority (DHSA) at Yeovilton.Promoted in post to squadron leader, in 1996, he remained at the DHSA until 1999 when he was posted to RAF Wittering to command the Supply Sqn.From RAF Wittering, he served as a logistic staff officer in HQ British Forces Falkland Islands before deploying to Oman as the movements staff officer in the UK National Support Element HQ supporting post-9/11 operations in Afghanistan (Operation VERITAS / ORACLE).

He was promoted to wing commander in 2002 and became the logistics manager in the Hercules Integrated Project Team at RAF Wyton.He was selected to attend the Advanced Command and Staff Course in 2003.In 2005 he was posted to the Permanent Joint HQ as the first Chief of Staff for the Standing Joint Force Logistic Component HQ.From December 2005 until July 2006, he deployed to Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff of the UK National Support Command for Op HERRICK.Afterwards, he returned to RAF Wittering to assume command of 85 (Expeditionary Logistics) Wg.In 2007, he was appointed as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Following command, he undertook a short tour in the Ministry of Defence Main Building as a strategic logistics planner for the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Logistic Operations) before being promoted to group captain in 2009 and posted to the Joint Force HQ as Deputy Chief of Staff.During this tour, he commanded UK Force Elements deployed to Haiti, following the earthquake of 2010 (Op PANLAKE), and served as the Chief of Staff of the Joint Task Force HQ in Malta that conducted the Libya Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation in 2011 (Op DEFERENCE).

He served a second operational tour in Afghanistan, from August 2011 to January 2012, as Deputy Commander (Support) within the NATO HQ at Kandahar Airfield.Thereafter, he returned to Main Building in the role of Assistant Head Defence Logistic Capability.In January 2014, he attended Higher Command and Staff Course, after which he was employed as the Deputy Head Operations & Compliance within the Defence Equipment & Support’s Support Enablers Operating Centre.He assumed his current role as Programme Lead for the Defence Support Network Transformation Programme in June 2017.

Group Captain Curtis began studying part-time for a PhD at King’s College London in September 2015.His research is focused on the translation of strategic direction into military capability.

The joint MOD/Industry Support Chain Seminar 2017 takes places on 19th October at the BAWA Centre, Bristol. The theme is Innovation & Defence Support - Balancing the Risk. This annual one-day event, highly valued by both MOD and Industry and organised through Team Defence Information, provides a first-hand opportunity to gain and share insights on this vital theme. It you neglect innovation and just maintain the status quo, you risk threatening operational effectiveness as 'the other guys' leap ahead and out-manoeuvre you. With thought-leader speakers, panel sessions, extensive trade stands and first-rate networking, SCS17 is a must-attend event. Use the day at SCS17 to take stock and benchmark the risks and rewards of practising innovation in Defence Support.

This document was downloaded from https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/602822/20160722-Innovation_Strategy_Final-O.pdf on 30 March 2017. Heather Goldstraw referenced the DE&S Innovation Strategy in her presentation at the Support Chain Seminar Event 2017 - click on appropriate link below.